HEALING AND THE SPOKEN WORD

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22823, 23 September 1939, Page 8

HEALING AND THE SPOKEN WORD

TO THB EDXTQg OF TBS PBXSS, ' Sir, de . Vesme, whose fine work, “A, History, of Experimental' Spiritualism" gained him the Laureateship of the French Academy of Sciences, * quoting from Horace Leaf. F.R.G.S., refers to the mysterious powers Of the Laplanders in nursing all kind of pathological trouble. They hold the belief that every condition of: mind and body Js related to certain sounds or words. Tn Sweden this- is known as Lapp-reading, and Mr Karl Tlren, who had formerly held •an official position ■ In- Lapland, used it when a man, who had his arm torn off, > Was Weeding :to death. Tiren reached , him just in time to see his eyes turn-up and the lids drop, with the blood jumping out of the exposed arteries, like a fountain. . Instantly, Tiren, placing his hand at the back of the neck, uttered the Lapp-reading formula for 'stopping the blood, from the arteries; and to the astonishment of all present,. Including himself, the haemorrhage stopped. The_patient opened his eyes and gasped, "The, pain Is gone, I feel . better,” ; When the doctors' arrived, they were perplexed and astounded -to find the . man alive, the arteries and veins exposed, .yet no ; blood escaping from them, The paiimV roooverad,—Yours, etc., • E. M. LOVELL-SMITH. September 22j 1939,